Can I know what's the difference between rooting using z4root or gingerbreak and flashing superuser?
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all three won't work here ... we have boot loader locked by default so you need to follow one of the guides posted here ...
but if your asking in general ... the end result is the same
Like s-off. I do have a feeling that s-on hboot unlocked does not fully root my phone. I tried overclocking/underclocking using oc/uv beater and setcpu. And my phone hangs. But in available memory and speed, theres a difference from the stock rom.
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Hello all. I can't seem to root the vivid. I can't dl the bootloader from htcdev for some reason so is there another way of getting it.
Thanks In advance
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Have you unlocked your phone yet? That is the first step. The htcdev site is where you do that. You don't download bootloaders though. Also go to the development section of the vivid forums and read the Superguide sticky on unlocking, rooting, etc. It is awesome. It will really guide you through all of the steps to get your phone unlocked, rooted, and romed!
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nope. you have to unlock the bootloader first. register.. select your device.. then follow the instructions.. make sure you have the latest android-sdk..
Ok thanks a lot. I will try it today.
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1. Can I leave hboot off unrooted
2. Can I lock hboot without a PC
3. Some tutorials say to lock hboot before flashing back to stock. I was aware u needed hboot unlocked to do this.
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2. To unlock bootloader you need a pc
3. You need to unlock your bootloader, as for hboot depends on if you are flashing ics etc
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Flashing stock ginger upgrading to stock ics
I have no clue why I am having so many issues going from rumraider beta 12 to unroot. But nonetheless I am. I will just have to sit down and read. I emailed the dev if that rom hopefully he is available
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Ok so here is where I run into my issues. I am a gamer on my phone. At some point everyone is. But I play perblues games parallelmafia and parallel kingdom. On ics on the vivid I am getting some kind of skipping lag. And its only on that game. Maybe someone can help and try to figure the issue. I also called HTC support they attempted with same issue.
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Now I just bought an Incredible S and I want to root it and install a custom ROM but it seems as though HTC seems to hate devs and there are tons of crap blocking it so I was wondering how exactly do I root it?
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Now I just bought an Incredible S and I want to root it and install a custom ROM but it seems as though HTC seems to hate devs and there are tons of crap blocking it so I was wondering how exactly do I root it?
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There are multiple guides on XDA. I made one myself its in my sig
Compared to other phones, this phone is actually quite the headache to root and achieve S-OFF
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Now I just bought an Incredible S and I want to root it and install a custom ROM but it seems as though HTC seems to hate devs and there are tons of crap blocking it so I was wondering how exactly do I root it?
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please give us more info. hboot version? ics or gb? s on or off?
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please give us more info. hboot version? ics or gb? s on or off?
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I have no idea what is the hboot version. But it's stock ics and s on
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I have no idea what is the hboot version. But it's stock ics and s on
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Wait sorry I forgot how do you check the hboot version
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And this was upgraded to ics, it was originally gb
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Wait sorry I forgot how do you check the hboot version
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Power off the phone and then hold the Volume Down key while pressing the Power button. This will boot you into the bootloader screen which lists the HBOOT version, the lock status and the radio version.
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Now I just bought an Incredible S and I want to root it and install a custom ROM but it seems as though HTC seems to hate devs and there are tons of crap blocking it so I was wondering how exactly do I root it?
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here is the link to the guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1337105
it's a very useful link with quite details...
srv.abhishek said:
here is the link to the guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1337105
it's a very useful link with quite details...
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This is a very reliable guide. I used it first before achieving S-OFF. I would recommend S-OFF over just root though. Allows you to flash kernels, radios, splash screen, anything.
S-off -> root -> custom rom
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S-off -> root -> custom rom
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errr... root and s-off are entirely different things. I looked at this thread in phandroid forums, and according to it, root just gives you superuser permissions. It gives you the ability to flash things to your phone, custom ROMs. However, when you root your phone, the Radio NVRAM section of the phone prevents you from completely overwriting system partition or at least from changing it. With S-OFF, you flash a custom HBOOT which gives you the ability to overwrite this system partition or in other words, literally do whatever you want to your phone.
I know. Not all of the custom rom require s-off. I suggest to him to s-off -> root -> the install custom rom. Forgot to put i suggest
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Hi
Ive been always wondering, could you pleease tell me what is the difference between s-off and unlocking the bootloader using htcdev.com?
Any benefits from one over the other?
Thanks
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zeekabal said:
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Ive been always wondering, could you pleease tell me what is the difference between s-off and unlocking the bootloader using htcdev.com?
Any benefits from one over the other?
Thanks
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They are two totally different things.
The bootloader needs to be unlocked for us to do basic modification of the device. This includes things like installing a custom recovery and a custom ROM.
S-off is not needed for either of those things. S-off stands for security checking. With S-off you can do things like flash modified hboots, modified splash screens, install custom or pre-release firmware or radios plus much more. However if you don't know what you are doing then s-off can be risky as the security checking is there to make sure you can only flash things that will work without issues on your device. Turning it off simply allows to skip the security checking and flash what we want as they assume you know what you are doing.
Hope that helps.
Ill stay on the safe side and keep it s-ON
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Just picked up a new HTC one and am intending on unlocking the bootloader, installing twrp, rooting and gaining s-off. All videos I've seen and all I've read seem to be at least 6 months old, pre 4.3 update. My question is should these procedures all work on my HTC One which is already on 4.3. Just trying to avoid any issues along the way. Thanks in advance for any answers.
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Yes they are still good involving the method from getting your dev code to unlock your bootloader to installing the twrp (always install the latest version) even getting your phone s-off if your on 1.55 hboot then you need to use rumrunner to get s-off after you unlock your bootloader and install trwp and get root make sure to flash a custom Rom before you run rumrunner
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I just got my one as well. Do you need to flash a custom rom before using rumrunner?
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I was literally just about to post a thread just like this lol. I'm not new to rooting but this phone makes it much more difficult than my prior Samsung phones. Can someone explain to me what the difference between unlocking the bootloader is and getting s-off? Also, for several hours yesterday I was attempting to unlock the bootloader but like OP I couldn't find a recent tutorial that involves getting the dev code (I actually found one but itwasn't very thorough). What exactly is rumrunner and a RUU and why do I need them, please and thank you
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